Tree of Life Version
Psalms 22:17
17For dogs have surrounded me. A band of evildoers has closed in on me. They pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalms 22:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
- New International Version (NIV)All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;
- New King James Version (NKJV)I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.
Context of Psalms 22:17
15I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax— melting within my innards. 16My strength is dried up like a clay pot, my tongue clings to my jaws. You lay me in the dust of death. For dogs have surrounded me. A band of evildoers has closed in on me. They pierced my hands and my feet. 18I can count all my bones. They stare, they gape at me. 19They divide my clothes among them, and cast lots for my garment.
Read all of Psalms 22Psalms 22:17 word by word
אֲסַפֵּ֥ר כָּל־עַצְמוֹתָ֑י הֵ֥מָּה יַ֝בִּ֗יטוּ יִרְאוּ־בִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 22:17
- Psalms 102:3Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn Your ear to me— in the day I call, answer me quickly.
- Job 33:21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, once unseen, now stick out.
- Isaiah 52:14Just as many were appalled at You— His appearance was disfigured more than any man, His form more than the sons of men.
- Matthew 27:36And they sat down and kept guard over Him there.
- Mark 15:29Those passing by were jeering at Him, shaking their heads and saying, “Ha! You who are going to destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days,
- Luke 23:27Now a great multitude of people was following Him, including women who were mourning and singing dirges for Him.
Commentaries on Psalms 22:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17I may tell all my bones - This may refer to the violent extension of his body when the whole of its weight hung upon the nails which attached his hands to the transverse beam of the cross. The body being thus extended, the principal bones became prominent, and easily discernible.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17I may tell all my bones - That is, I may count them. They are so prominent, so bare, that I can see them and count their number. The idea here is that of emaciation from continued suffering or from some other cause. As applied to the Redeemer, it would denote the effect of long protracted suffering and anxiety on his frame, as rendering it crushed, weakened, emaciated. Compare the notes at Isaiah 52:14; Isaiah 53:2-3. No one can prove that an effect such…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-21Verses 11-21 In these verses we have Christ suffering, and Christ praying; by which we are directed to look for crosses, and to look up to God under them. The very manner of Christ's death is described, though not in use among the Jews. They pierced his hands and his feet, which were nailed to the accursed tree, and his whole body was left so to hang as to suffer the most severe pain and torture. His natural force failed, being wasted by the fire of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-18I can count all my bones: The psalmist's enemies have shamed him by taking his clothes. Jesus also faced this humiliation (see Matthew 27:35). stare and gloat over me: Enemies make the psalmist a target of their ridicule (see Psalms 35:24, 26; 38:16; 55:3; compare 59:10). cast lots: Casting lots was sometimes a way for religious people to seek God's guidance (Leviticus 16:8; Numbers 27:21; Acts 1:24–26). Here, the lots are thrown as a game of chance. The…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. His emaciated frame, itself an item of his misery, is rendered more so as the object of delighted contemplation to his enemies. The verbs, "look" and "stare," often occur as suggestive of feelings of satisfaction (compare Psa 27:13; 54:7; 118:7).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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